This is the BlackBerry key too
so the BlackBerry keep - is in to play with and I'm sure it'll be a comment
down in the comments box down below saying how lit this is to the game but
sometimes these things are very difficult to get out whenever every
other journalist and blogger right there wants to get their hands on one this is
a black one with 64 gigabytes and six gigabytes of RAM internally on the back
here we have some basic specs for GLG rlt a 4.5 IPS display 1620 by 1080 with
433 PPI it's a joke or 64-bit it's not dragon 660 jul 12 megapixel cameras with
wide and telephoto lenses I'm interested in this camera more so because I've
heard conflicting reports as to whether or not it's actually good the front
camera is it megapixels there's a third 3,500 milliamp power battery inside and
it runs Android so we'll pull her out of the box well it's actually quite a nice
box good good thick box at that and then we have the device neatly set on top
which will pop out and come back to later right we have a little tray that
is made out of recycled cardboard which is going honestly not plastic and we
have another little box here which has some bits and pieces inside us we have a
sim card ejector tool always handy and a Quick Start Guide then at the bottom we
have the power adapter which 100 to 240 volts 50 to 60 Hertz
I put 5 volts equalling 3 amps 9 volts equaling 2 amps 12 volts equalling 15
amps very difficult to see this extraordinary small writing you can see
it probably better on the screen now with the macro vision and it's a
portable travel charger kind of nice we have a little pair of headphones there
but we'll have a look out and we have a USB type-c Kay
so the headphones we get some some earbuds which is nice um they are any
our headphones on if memory serves they're made by someone someone notable
maybe not maybe I'm just making out up but they actually look quite nice
they've got a particular design to them obviously that is Blackberry apparent
but yeah they're they're neat and I've got a little inline controller with a
button and a volume up and dine so yeah they look quite decent I'll take them
for a spin okay so the main event the device right well I have the luxury of
being able to do this because I have the key one as well I used this for as my
main device for most of a year until some problems cropped up in that
Christmas I was at a Christmas party and I went to take a picture of the group of
friends I was with and the camera stopped working and it continued to stay
not working up until this was about to come out and this got a software update
and the camera started working again I was about six months later so I I give
up on this in January the spacebar also give me no end of troubles it just
didn't work it I was going to RMA it then all of a sudden it started working
again for about a week then it stopped working again for about a month and if
you can just about see that the battery has swelled just a little just enough
that it's notable in the hand you can feel a bit of a bulge here which I'm not
exactly pleased with but then I changed my job and I was able to keep the device
almost fully charged as opposed to running it down as I used to on my daily
routine so that brings us to the key to one that I'm terribly enthusiastic about
I can't wait to use this as my main device because I love
the key one ever so much I am a bit of a fan so I have high hopes for it initial
impressions are that it's lovely it feels very nice in the hand I'm quite
hot mine has just come in from the cold so it's a wee bit sweaty we have three
buttons down this side which will we'll delve into is ones obviously a volume
rocker there's probably a power button there as well and then the the
BlackBerry button which was on the key one on the other side and I remember it
being quite annoying because you would hit it quite frequently I was always
most annoyed about this because putting it into a car cradle you would hit that
a lot and I'm noting that this is done around that area as well so this is
going to cause issues with my car cradle plumping in on the sides anyway and
that's my my own problems certainly not yours and on the top we have a 3.5
millimeter headphone jack a nice metallic feel here that actually it's
really smooth and luxuriant it's quite silky microphone hole there as well we
have an untenable here with volume rocker and then the two buttons we
mentioned earlier run to the bottom or we have an untenable antenna band and
down firing speakers hopefully they I'm not sure if they're speaking our stereo
or not but they're there on the USB type-c connector oh the side here
nothing's here for the SIM card tray and an antenna band as well so run the back
we have the dual cameras that were mentioned on the back of the box a dual
LED flash the BlackBerry logo and then under the sweaty marks seee
and do not put in the bin always good advice so we'll work out which of these
is the power button and we'll have a go turning it on it's not that one it's
that one we get a slight buzz there's obviously notable textures here and
distinguish between the buttons not to mention the ship being slightly
different so this being the power button on that being
the BlackBerry button that sometimes you can link to other things like Bex P that
we could we could link it to Bex to be couldn't we right so there is the screen
it looks very nice viewing angles are are quite impressive it's not quite as
dazzlingly bright as you would expect but then and we've only just turned it
on so we haven't tinkered with it there's vision settings we obviously
have a the bar across here for Android buttons which seems a bit of a waste to
scream green real estate it could have been a slightly bigger screen and just
have them pop up when you slide up on the keyboard or something like that it's
a bit of a missed opportunity you can see there's very nice lines here where
the keyboard connects to the screen it's it's not just quite as cut as you
would expect there's a wee bit of a difference in the the metals and the
plastics and things like that it's quite pretty and then the keyboard itself
which we're going to get into there's some missing buttons either and here
which may be missing for reasons that you might accidentally hit them or it
gives you somewhere to hold or I don't know but we'll see whether or not the
keyboard feels crumped enough to make this an atrocity that there's two
buttons missing or or if it's good enough that we can do away with these so
we haven't put in a SIM card yet I'm gonna start fresh timing of a password
there was very smooth no haptic feedback or anything because you're relying on a
physical keyboard which is candidates we got it all set up that time so it's an
octa-core processor incident which has for two point two gigahertz cryo cryo
two sixties I think it is um processors inside +4 1.8 gigahertz processor so
it'll rely on the 120 until it needs the extra power and then it will kick in the
the higher power processor signed in you our secure two-factor sign in
combination there's an Adreno 5 1/2 GPU to backup the processor and our setup is
finally complete ok so I have not signed in a while it's quite nice to hear
and this is the BlackBerry launcher organize your space pop-up widgets
there's the productivity table and the side there which we can pull in
collectors you don't place your day on a glance customize your settings volume
just add a widget to the productivity tab and swipe back when finished so
pretty much the same as it was before
applications don't work with everything right so uh productivity on top here for
your apps and widgets and shortcuts
Universal shortcut keys which always found in you can do them yourself I love
them on the key one I thought there was something wrong with the screen there
but it's the actual wallpaper you can see it's a bit texturized right so we
have lots of stuff installed and it's updating as we speak I am we have
contacts messages calendar Play Store on Google so very much Android on the front
page there then the phone and I'm guessing off blackberry messenger or hub
plus that's right and I was a big fan of hub buy a blackberry hub and whatever I
moved across from my blackberry to the Samsung Galaxy S it that I ultimately
moved to it I took it with me but it just didn't feel right using it without
blackberry integration we have a house up straw chrome and the camera then over
here we have photos Maps detect by blackberry which is the security suite
that tests just hi secure your phone is monitor
control and track notify me and all that kind of keeper and we are excellent
security that's great I've never seen it anything else but sure some people have
then the BlackBerry suite which has a load of really nice little applications
we've got note which is a bit like Evernote or Google keep or that sort of
thing a task manager keyboard shortcuts odd
contact and our event just very simple administrative features on the on on the
phone composing emails composing text messages viewing alarms checking your
battery level level unchecking your daily usage really simple stuff just
there by default that you probably might not go as far to get if you have another
device but as they're here they are very nice but they're all linked into the
BlackBerry ecosystem which makes it a little bit more difficult to justify
using because maybe you've got a desktop PC that you're using Microsoft's options
on or a Chromebook which you you have a Google's integrated entity so it's a
third ecosystem that you have to consider then under them in the app
drawer we have detect my blackberry hub all those these are your most frequently
used up here and then all the rest of them down here with your BlackBerry own
ones like content transfer the locker and to keep things secure and away from
eyes if you were to lose the phone your password keeper chrome has one of those
built into it but this has got more functionality and things notable and
notes are pretty much the same thing but ones for kind of screen shopping and it
is tremendously handy an FM radio wonderful I amazing is a the privacy
shared which I used once and thought it was neat I never had call to use again
but I'm sure some people have were it just gives you a bond across the screen
and you move it up and down which means no one else can see what you're doing on
the screen if you're trying to read some sensitive documentation on the train or
something like that and no one can read over your shoulders redactor I haven't
seen that before about obviously it's for deleting or obscuring information in
a document like that to hide parts of the screen so it meant no one can see
okay so it's like privacy she had but in Reverse no tasks signed recorder slides
sheet settings translate everything is pretty much self-explanatory so we'll go
to the camera blackberry camera welcome to blackberry
camera take a picture or a video dual camera logger mode and turn on location
data I want to do that there's a Nerf going at my finger at the moment sorry
don't over you'd see that but the film was bunting um yeah so much of the
internet is divided as to whether or not this camera is any good so I'm gonna go
in and have a quick look at the system settings see what version we're on and
if there's an update right so there's no updates currently available we are on
there's the baseband version Android security patch of May that's August
noise so where are we but behind I think my Samsung Galaxy Tab s2 have an update
yesterday to the June security thing so it knows there we've it lagging behind
but then blackberry did do that on the key one I was been annoyed that there
wasn't wasn't any updates for quite some time
hardware version kernel number and Bill version so we or a version 8.1 point
zero there's been no real updates to the camera but perhaps it comes from the App
Store
any updates available blackberry launcher blackberry hub
nothing showing for the camera so will must not bother a couple of pictures
I will have a look at those and see how good they look initially there was a bit
of blur actually there and the between the enemy am I don't know if you can
quite make that out on the camera there it is tiny bit blurry for a little level
light picture there the detail seems to be okay if a little blurry around the
edge of the Aston Martin there and then mr. Williams from army of darkness looks
quite good there's a good imagery but you can see it's a wee bit flat on the
face there it's missing quite a bit of detail and the dust on the hair isn't
coming through quite well so perhaps it's just the environment but this is
under studio lumps so I should for off quite well but we'll take it out to give
it a full ship down to see whether or not it's sir it's any good get some
video go on and things like that and everything just looks like it was on the
key one it's it is a nice looking device I'm looking forward to getting into it
and using it it will be my main device in my that I'm rocking in my pocket for
the next two to three weeks we'll see how we go get the volume turned on just
a little because the camera was incredibly loud there which means these
speakers are particularly light and the the speakers actually it doesn't say
whether or not they are stereos I already said there is active
noise-cancelling dedicated microphones I don't know how many but I saw two I
think of my ship rinder device no maybe just one alright well there's probably
one in the bottom there anyway I'd like to think they're balls because that's
where your voice is or your mouth is the camera itself is the dual 12 megapixel
camera on the captures video with 2160 30 frames per second or 1080p at 30
frames per second so not quite 4k 2k really
the front-facing camera can do 1080p 30 frames per second as well there's
Bluetooth 5.0 built-in which is kinda nice and this IPS LCD capacitive
touchscreen is a four point five inch device and it's got cornering Gorilla
Glass 3 on the front I think they're up to five nine but for some reason this
only needs three and when we get the SIM card in there will will pop in a micro
SD card because I forgot failed to mention that there's a micro SD card
slot there as well it supports 256 gigabytes so you should be good for
storage on this with 64 onboard already alright well we'll take it off and stick
it in my pocket have a bit of a room I'd go on it for a couple of weeks let me
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